jamesponddotco

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by jamesponddotco 11mo ago
I went from Bash to Go as a system admin, and eventually built something with Rust too, so I can definitely confirm that the Go learning curve is softer than Rust.
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
This could probably be implemented as a simple Bash script, if the user wants to run everything manually. I might just do that to burn some time.
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
With my wife and I using our OpenRouter account, via the API, we spend about $20 per month. Plus a Claude Pro subscription for Claude Code which I’m meaning to cancel. We mostly use Claude Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro, with a bit of GPT-5 when
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
While working on Shelvica, a personal library management service and reading tracker, I realized I needed a source of data for book information, and none of the solutions available provided all the data I needed. One might provide the serie
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Service isn't online yet, but you can find me on Sourcehut[1] and on GitHub[2], where I'll probably be posting the service soon. You can also email me[3] if you have a request or a specific use case I might be able to support. [1]
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
The algorithm to decide what to merge is the hardest part, in my opinion, and very basic right now. Eventually, I wanna try doing something with machine learning. Definitely a fun thing to work on, though. Having a full time job and a baby
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Sending you a message later today!
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I’ll send you an email later today for sure!
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Sure, I’d love to keep you in the loop. Send a message to the email on my profile and I’ll let you know once I have something ready for testing :)
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Didn’t have the time yet, but it’s on my todo list. I have extractors for Google Books, Hardcover.app, and ISBNDB already working, and Amazon, Goodreads, and Anna’s Archive in the todo list. I do plan on including a link to the book on Anna
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I’m working on an ISBN database that fetches information from several other services, such as Hardcover.app, Google Books, and ISBNDB, merges that information, and return something more complete than using them alone. It also saves that inf
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
No secure boot support? Still?
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Might be good for my brain, but won’t be for my body, as my wife would kill me.
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Ah, yeah, that makes sense. I simply ignore the main view and go straight to the albums. In iOS 26 it defaults to your last view, so that works for me.
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I can sort my photos in folders (or albums) in iOS, not sure what you mean? I can have personal and shared albums, unless you mean the fact you don’t have that in the filesystem, in which case I completely agree. I’m a Firefox guy myself an
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Didn’t think of that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I was writing the same few lines for every project, so why not make it its own package? For my projects I can just include the dependency, as I wrote it and don’t mind using it. Other people can copy it instead, since the proverb goes “a li
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Another great security feature systemd provides is credential management[1], which allows you to expose credentials to an application in a more secure way than, say, an environment variable or a file in the filesystem. When Vault is not ava
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Mostly because the system prompt states "The user will provide the idea you will be working with as the first message between <idea> tags." and Claude loves XML tags, but if you're not including anything else in the mes
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I do one question at a time so I don't feel overwhelmed and can answer questions with more details. I start with an idea between <idea> tags, write as much as I possibly can between these tags, and then go one question at a time
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
They are subagents and slash commands, depending on the project. Eventually, I need to come up with a “dotclaude” repository with these and a few others I use in. Edit: Sorry, I had a brain fart for a second, thought you were talking about
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I have multiple system prompts that I use before getting to the actual specification. 1. I use the Socratic Coder[1] system prompt to have a back and forth conversation about the idea, which helps me hone the idea and improve it. This conv
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I open source pretty much everything I work on that is close to finished or finished. Never regretted doing it, but never got anything out of doing it either, aside from the feeling of paying forward. I guess it really depends on how popula
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Inspired by this article by Laurie Hérault[1] which explains how understanding the science of video games helped them "cure" their procrastination, I built a simple CLI tool in Go to print those tasks and added a fun little twist,
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Show HN: Taskemon, CLI tool to print task tickets with a thermal printer(sr.ht)
2 points by jamesponddotco 1y ago|1 comments
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
My brother works with COBOL for a bank here in Brazil, he is young (in his 20s), started before finishing his degree. Pay is poor, hours are insane, he is overworked as hell, and anything “modern”, like git, is out of the question. He’s try
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
Cloudcraft[1][2] can do that with your cloud provider, AWS or Azure. As a bonus, the diagrams also look quite cool. [1]: https://www.cloudcraft.co/ [2]: I’m part of the Cloudcraft team at DataDog, so obviously, I’m biased.
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
My mother-in-law did the same, then I cut her off, no more pictures of the kid. She got into the program after that.
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
I live in the terminal, so I wrote my own prompt ages ago when I started learning Go[1][2], and before that I had a simple prompt in bash. I like to keep things very simple and fast, so the directory and the git branch is all I need. I wond
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by jamesponddotco 1y ago
That is correct, there's no alternative front-end that still works. Self-hostable open source ones, that is—you can still find random ones on search engines that aren't open source.

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